This summary was supposed to be completed during the National Day holiday, but every time I wrote a few paragraphs, I would delete them because of my poor writing skills. However, I couldn't let go of the idea of writing something, so I decided to write a casual account instead of nothing. Winter is coming, so I won't delay any longer.
Based on the latitude of Guangdong, I define summer as the period from early May to early October.
Due to length reasons, I won't include too many pictures. Maybe it would be more appropriate to develop a component for image collections in the future.
Summer Flashback#
My summer began with a busy period.
My roommate had moved to another city for work half a year ago, and by May, the lease for the house had expired, so I had to find a new place to live.
I came back home before the May Day holiday to pack up the two-bedroom apartment. It took two trips with a cargo van to finally move all my belongings to the new place.
After finishing, I lay on the bed, looking at the cardboard boxes filling every corner of the new rental, knowing that I probably wouldn't open them until the next move.
The Last Shot#
Mid-May is the breeding season for fireflies, and as someone who had planned to take photos, I naturally didn't want to miss it.
But it was clearly not the right time to go. Many people knew about the fireflies, and even at 6 PM, there were at least a hundred people waiting in line in front of the botanical garden.
There were many uncivilized tourists and misbehaving children. Every time the fireflies appeared, they were scared away by flashlights and torches. As a result, I also witnessed a quarrel between tourists. By 9 PM, I had very few photos and had to call it a night.
At the end of the month, I climbed Hulushan Mountain with my classmates. Everything in early summer was beautiful, the sky was so blueforget about the haze in Guangzhou, and the cumulus clouds formed by the condensation of a large amount of water vapor complemented it perfectly. If you don't consider the hot temperature that made people dizzy, this should be my favorite time of the year.
In early June, I visited the Nanyue King Museum in an unexpected rain shower. The last time I came here was almost 5 years ago. Since then, my weekly outings for photography, which had been going on since February, came to an end. After a few months, I had visited all the places in the Guangzhou urban area that I knew and were convenient to go to.
The memories of the following period are a bit chaotic. My diary recorded several days of chaotic work and life.
Playing Genshin Impact#
Around July, I thought about meeting a friend from the Genshin Impact group, 减紫, in an exhibition. Since I missed the ticket sales for the firefly exhibition, I chose the ACGHK event at the end of the month instead.
The plan was all set, but unexpected events occurred. Typhoon Du Sui Rui hit, and the high-speed rail lines along the Fujian coast were temporarily suspended. My friend couldn't come, so we had to cancel the plan.
Unwilling to give up, I shifted my focus to the Dongguan Pineapple Animation Festival on August 5th. This time, I invited another friend from the group, Lao Lu.
Since we missed the online ticket sales again, we thought there would be offline tickets available. However, when we arrived at the venue under the scorching sun at noon, we were shocked to find out that all the tickets were sold out, and there would be no additional offline tickets. It seemed that we underestimated the influence of attending the event in person.
Helpless, we settled for a nearby KFC to satisfy our hunger, and then we went to the adjacent food exhibition before parting ways.
I have to mention Lao Lu here. How can he play Genshin Impact intensively every day while balancing family and scientific research? It's a mystery.
The awkward situation caused by these casual plans continued.
After experiencing a setback in Dongguan, I planned to attend the Guangzhou COMICUP GZ05 at the end of the month with 减紫. However, since the organizers didn't announce the ticket sales date for a long time, we had to wait and wait. It was only a week before the event that the organizers decided to release the tickets. The platform's app notification was overwhelmed by the sudden surge in traffic, so my phone didn't receive the notification. When we realized this, the tickets were already sold out.
However, because COMICUP GZ05 had a higher popularity and attracted many peripheral photographers, we still decided to go to the Pazhou area. As someone with social anxiety, I naturally didn't actively approach cosplayers for photos, so I handed my camera to 减紫 to take pictures.
A Ten-Year Promise#
My initial online social circle came from a Minecraft purchasing group ten years ago. Those who have watched Minecraft-related live streams back then should know what I'm talking about. Although I haven't played Minecraft for a long time, the relationships I built back then have been maintained and become a retirement group. The initial plan to meet in person was scheduled for the 2015 China Joy event, but for various reasons, it never happened, and now almost ten years have passed.
At some point this year, a group member announced that he was getting married and asked if we wanted to attend his wedding in September. This was a great opportunity for everyone to finally meet after eight years. Except for a few people who couldn't make it due to other commitments, a total of eight people attended the wedding.
Suzhou doesn't have an airport, so to reach the groom's hometown in Zhangjiagang, we had to fly to Nantong first and then take a taxi to the high-speed rail station before crossing the Yangtze River by train.
The groom thoughtfully booked rooms for us in the hotel where the wedding was held, so we just had to go downstairs before the wedding started. The wedding was scheduled to start on Tuesday, and since the groom didn't take Monday off, he had to work and didn't have time to accompany us.
While waiting for the wedding to start, the remaining group members and I played an unscary escape room game. In the afternoon, we found a board game store and started playing games of deception.
After being used to the crowded subways in Guangzhou, I felt a sense of unreality during my time in Zhangjiagang.
During the wedding, we realized that our seats were arranged in the second row, right next to the tables of the elders. It was truly an honor.
The highlight of the wedding was when the bride and groom hugged and kissed during the emcee's speech. All of us, including me, were a bit teary-eyed. Even the tough guys shed tears.
In addition to that, this meetup produced many candid photos that became popular in our group chat as reaction images.
Other Records#
Coding#
- NeoVim
- I started using it after reading innei's recommendation article. I have been using it instead of VSCode for work for some time now.
- Blog
- I rewrote my blog using Nuxt3, but I haven't quite figured out the style yet. I need to focus on filling it with content first.
- Company Business Components
- I encapsulated most of the business components used in the projects at my company.
- The workflow has become copying HTML from prototypes -> cleaning it up -> using a specialized prompt to input GPT-generated JSON into the code.
- Work has become more and more boring, and I don't feel comfortable slacking off during the fragmented time I save.
- Computer Graphics
- I started with the basics of ray casting and created a random maze generator.
- Currently, I'm following tutorials on shaders to get started. I don't have much to say until I create something.
Games#
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
- I first learned about this game when I saw the OST album for sale on Taobao. I was curious about what kind of game it was, so I looked it up on Steam.
- I thought it didn't have Chinese language support, but I played it almost to the end before I found out the truth. It was painful.
- Kenshi
- I learned about it from Xiaoyin's livestream a few years ago.
- I had a very immersive gaming experience before becoming too powerful.
- Paradise Killer
- I learned about it from Fengmao's videos. What attracted me was the City Pop-style BGM. The album has been in my music rotation for a year, but I only started playing the game this year.
- I prefer wandering around the map while listening to the BGM rather than solving mysteries.
- Genshin Impact
- I became more and more casual after version 3.4. I didn't have time to play, and I couldn't stand the storyline. After version 4.0, I decided to cancel my monthly card and quit the game.
- It feels great not having to go to work after work.
- Slay the Spire
- I played it before, and recently I picked it up again and completed a run with all the characters. It's a good time killer.
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The new DLC was released, so I started a new playthrough.
- As of writing this, I haven't played for two weeks.
Overall, I played fewer games compared to previous years, as work and other pressures have increased.
Apps#
- Pokemon Sleep
- Although I rarely followed my sleep schedule, I'm open to adding friends. You can add me at
1854-1365-0050. 
- Although I rarely followed my sleep schedule, I'm open to adding friends. You can add me at
- Duolingo
- I initially planned to learn both Japanese and English, but later decided to focus on Japanese only.
- Tana
- Combined with the book "The Cloud Collector's Handbook," I tried to record the clouds I photographed during the summer.
- Anytype
- I started using it from July to record work documents and short diary entries that don't require much text.
I might write a subjective evaluation of various note-taking apps in the future.
Music#
The song I listened to the most this summer was probably "Go Out And Love Someone" by Pogo. It perfectly captured my state of mind.